‘I’m managing myself’: how and why people use St John’s wort as a strategy to manage their mental health risk

References

• Alaszewski, A. (2005). Risk communication: Identifying the importance of social context. Health, Risk & Society, 7(2), 101–105. doi:10.1080/13698570500148905
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Alaszewski, A., & Coxon, K. (2008). The everyday experience of living with risk and uncertainty. Health, Risk & Society, 10(5), 413–420. doi:10.1080/13698570802383952
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Alaszewski, A., & Coxon, K. (2009). Uncertainty in everyday life: Risk, worry and trust. Health, Risk & Society, 11(3), 201–207. doi:10.1080/13698570902906454
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Badger, F., & Nolan, P. (2007). Use of self-chosen therapies by depressed people in primary care. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 16(7), 1343–1352. doi:10.1111/jcn.2007.16.issue-7
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barbour, R., & Barbour, M. (2003). Evaluating and synthesizing qualitative research: The need to develop a distinctive approach. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 9(2), 179–186. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2753.2003.00371.x
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blazer, D. G. (2005). The age of melancholy: ‘Major depression’ and its social origins. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Bourne, A. H., & Robson, M. A. (2009). Perceiving risk and (re)constructing safety: The lived experience of having ‘safe’ sex. Health, Risk & Society, 11(3), 283–295. doi:10.1080/13698570902906421
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brenton, J., & Elliott, S. (2014). Undoing gender? The case of complementary and alternative medicine. Sociology of Health & Illness, 36(1), 91–107. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12043
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Broom, A., Meurk, C., Adams, J., & Sibbritt, D. (2013). Networks of knowledge or just old wives’ tales? A diary-based analysis of women’s self-care practices and everyday lay expertise. Health, 18(4), 335–351.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Broom, A., Meurk, C., Adams, J., & Sibbritt, D. (2014). My health, my responsibility? Complementary medicine and self (health) care. Journal of Sociology, 50(4), 515–530. doi:10.1177/1440783312467098
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., Scomparini, L. B., Andrade, A. G. d., Bhugra, D., de Toledo Ferraz Alves, T. C., & D’Elia, G. (2011). Perceptions of and attitudes toward antidepressants: Stigma attached to their use – A review. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 199(11), 866–871. doi:10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182388950
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Corrigan, P. (2004). How stigma interferes with mental health care. American Psychologist, 59(7), 614–625. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.59.7.614
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coulter, I. D., & Willis, E. M. (2004). The rise and rise of complementary and alternative medicine: A sociological perspective. Medical Journal of Australia, 180(11), 587–590.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Department of Health and Ageing. (2011). Therapeutic goods regulation: Complementary medicines. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.
   Google Scholar
• Graham, H. (1993). Hardship and health in women’s lives. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
   Google Scholar
• Hammerness, P., Basch, E., Ulbricht, C., Barrette, E.-P., Foppa, I., Basch, S., … Ernst, E. (2003). St. John’s wort: A systematic review of adverse effects and drug interactions for the consultation psychiatrist. Psychosomatics, 44(4), 271–282. doi:10.1176/appi.psy.44.4.271
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Henwood, K., Pidgeon, N., Sarre, S., Simmons, P., & Smith, N. (2008). Risk, framing and everyday life: Epistemological and methodological reflections from three socio-cultural projects. Health, Risk & Society, 10(5), 421–438. doi:10.1080/13698570802381451
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Horlick-Jones, T., & Prades, A. (2009). On interpretative risk perception research: Some reflections on its origins; its nature; and its possible applications in risk communication practice. Health, Risk & Society, 11(5), 409–430. doi:10.1080/13698570903180448
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kemshall, H. (2014). Conflicting rationalities of risk: Disputing risk in social policy – Reflecting on 35 years of researching risk. Health, Risk & Society, 16(5), 398–416. doi:10.1080/13698575.2014.934208
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kokanovic, R., Bendelow, G., & Philip, B. (2013). Depression: The ambivalence of diagnosis. Sociology of Health & Illness, 35(3), 377–390. doi:10.1111/shil.2013.35.issue-3
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kokanovic, R., May, C., Dowrick, C., Furler, J., Newton, D., & Gunn, J. (2010). Negotiations of distress between East Timorese and Vietnamese refugees and their family doctors in Melbourne. Sociology of Health & Illness, 32(4), 511–527. doi:10.1111/shil.2010.32.issue-4
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Linde, K., Berner, M. M., & Kriston, L. (2008). St John’s wort for major depression. Cochrane Database Systematic Review, 4, CD000448.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Little, C. V. (2009). Simply because it works better: Exploring motives for the use of medical herbalism in contemporary UK health care. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 17(5–6), 300–308. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2009.08.001
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lupton, D. (1993). Risk as moral danger: The social and political functions of risk discourse in public health. International Journal of Health Services, 23, 425–435. doi:10.2190/16AY-E2GC-DFLD-51X2
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McGarry, H., Pirotta, M., Hegarty, K., & Gunn, J. (2007). General practitioners and St. John’s Wort: A question of regulation or knowledge? Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 15(2), 142–148. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2006.02.002
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Meurk, C., Broom, A., Siobhan, C., Adams, J., & Sibbritt, D. (2012). Bodies of knowledge: Nature, holism and women’s plural health practices. Health, 17(3), 300–318.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• National Institute of Complementary Medicines. (2013). Facts and statistics. Retrieved September 16, 2013, from http://www.nicm.edu.au/understanding-cm/facts-and-statistics
   Google Scholar
• Petersen, A. (2003). Governmentality, critical scholarship and the medical humanities. Journal of Medical Humanities, 24, 187–201. doi:10.1023/A:1026002202396
   Google Scholar
• Pilkington, K., Boshnakova, A., & Richardson, J. (2006). St John’s wort for depression: Time for a different perspective? Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 14(4), 268–281. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2006.01.003
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pirotta, M., Densley, K., Forsdike, K., Carter, M., & Gunn, J. (2014). St John’s wort use in Australian general practice patients with depressive symptoms: Their characteristics and use of other health services. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 14, 204. doi:10.1186/1472-6882-14-204
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pirotta, M., Willis, K., Carter, M., Forsdike, K., Newton, D., & Gunn, J. (2014). ‘Less like a drug than a drug’: The use of St John’s wort among people who self-identify as having depression and/or anxiety symptoms. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 22, 870–876. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2014.07.007
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rogers, A., Kennedy, A., Nelson, E., & Robinson, A. (2005). Uncovering the limits of patient-centeredness: Implementing a self-management trial for chronic illness. Qualitative Health Research, 15(2), 224–239. doi:10.1177/1049732304272048
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rosenberg, S., Hickie, I. B., & Mendoza, J. (2009). National mental health reform: Less talk, more action. Medical Journal of Australia, 190(4), 193–195.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thirlaway, K. J., & Heggs, D. A. (2005). Interpreting risk messages: Women’s responses to a health story. Health, Risk & Society, 7, 107–121. doi:10.1080/13698570500108677
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thomas-MacLean, R., & Stoppard, J. (2004). Physicians’ constructions of depression: Inside⁄outside the boundaries of medicalisation. Health, 8(3), 275–293.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tulloch, J., & Lupton, D. (2003). Risk and everyday life. London: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Wagner, P. J., Jester, D., LeClair, B., Taylor, A. T., Woodward, L., & Lambert, J. (1999). Taking the edge off: Why patients choose St. John’s wort. Journal of Family Practice, 48(8), 615–619.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Williamson, M., Tudball, J., Toms, M., Garden, F., & Grunseit, A. (2008). Information use and needs of complementary medicines users. Sydney: National Prescribing Service.
   Google Scholar
• Zinn, J. (2005). The biographical approach: A better way to understand behaviour in health and illness. Health, Risk & Society, 7(1), 1–9. doi:10.1080/13698570500042348
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zinn, J. (2008). Heading into the unknown: Everyday strategies for managing risk and uncertainty. Health, Risk & Society, 10(5), 439–450. doi:10.1080/13698570802380891
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zinn, J. (2010). Biography, risk and uncertainty – Is there common ground for biographical research and risk research? Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 11(1), Art. 15.
   Google Scholar